Tag: maya angelou
Let Students Learn: Our Response to the Removal of Classic Novels from Mat-Su School Curriculum
When school boards deny students the ability to read and engage with literature that depicts the range of human experience on the vague grounds of “controversy,” they diminish their students’ educational experience and disparage the constitutional values of free thought.
Intellectual Freedom News 4/5/2019
Colson Whitehead to Keynote Freedom to Read Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Celebration; College President Sparks Controversy by Taking Down Blackface Photos; ALA Joins Groups Opposing Census Citizenship Question; Happy Birthday, Maya Angelou
Happy Birthday, Maya Angelou
Dr. Angelou’s words urge us all to push past our fears, our anger, our hate. To find freedom in the good, the kind, the welcoming. To embrace our neighbor, both human and the world. To rise and feel the pulse of a new day.
Maya Angelou Documentary Highlights Her Singular Character
On Feb. 21, PBS premiered ‘And Still I Rise,’ a documentary on the life of Maya Angelou. Using mostly archival footage and interviews with the author herself, it is an opportunity to learn about the author’s life largely in her own words, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, through her years in New York and Ghana, up to her death in 2014.